Tennis superstar Serena Williams has hinted at a comeback after 18 months away from tennis, saying on social media that she is “ready to hit the ball again”.
Williams, 42, said in a post that she was “stepping away from tennis” Fashion In 2022, she published her farewell in the magazine, and while she didn’t confirm that the U.S. Open was her farewell, she was greeted with lavish tributes before every match in New York and lost in the third round. After giving Ajla Tomljanovich, waved goodbye to her.
“I’m not retiring,” Williams said Promoting her investment firm Serena Ventures at a conference in San Francisco in October 2022. “The chances (of returning) are very high. You can come to my house, I have a court.”
The 23-time Grand Slam champion, who took the tennis world by storm as a teenager and is considered by many to be the greatest player of all time, revealed at the time that she had not prepared to attend the US Open because it did not come naturally to her Contest.
“I haven’t really thought about (retiring),” she said. “But I did wake up one day, walk on the court and realize for the first time in my life that I wasn’t playing to play, and it was a really weird feeling.
“It’s like day one of the rest of my life and I’m enjoying it but I’m still trying to find balance.”
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Williams has been careful not to say the “R” word, instead declaring that she is “evolving” away from tennis.
“I never liked the word retirement. It didn’t feel like a modern word to me,” Williams writes in the book. Fashion in August.
“I always think of it as a transition, but I want to be sensitive to how I use the word, which means something very specific and important to people.
“Maybe the best word to describe what I do is evolution. I’m here to tell you that I’m evolving from tennis to other things that are important to me.”
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Women’s tennis, like Williams, has grown in the 18 months since she left the court, with Iga Swiatek, Aryna Sabalenka, Coco Gauff Gauff and Elena Rybakina formed a new “Big Four” that pushed women’s tennis to new heights.
If Serena is to come back, she better need to be 100 percent healthy and ready to compete with the best.
Her last Grand Slam singles title came in 2017, but despite her continued efforts, she could not match 24-time Grand Slam winner Margaret Court.
Novak Djokovic’s 24th Grand Slam title at Roland Garros last year may give Williams an extra boost, and she may well feel her story can still have a fairytale ending.
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